This brief summarizes key lessons from the Multi-State Study of CCDF Implementation in Local Communities, a novel study of how child care subsidy programs are implemented across four states with large populations of income-eligible Hispanic children.
Related briefs:
State-Level Comparisons
- Perspectives From Local CCDF Program Staff in Four States on Improving Latino Families’ Access to Child Care Subsidies: This brief summarizes key lessons from the Multi-State Study of CCDF Implementation in Local Communities. The brief shares what we have learned to date from cross-state work.
- How State-level Child Care Development Fund Policies May Shape Access and Utilization among Hispanic Families: This research brief describes how state policy context may contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in the use of CCDF subsidies—especially the low use by eligible Hispanic families.
- State-level TANF Policies and Practice May Shape Access and Utilization among Hispanic Families: This brief describes state-level policies and administrative practices for TANF that may influence income-eligible Hispanic families’ use or non-use of the cash assistance component of the TANF program
- How State Policies Might Affect Hispanic Families’ Access to and Use of Child Care and Development Fund Subsidies: This infographic highlights some of the findings from a 2019 study that explored state-level variation in policies and practices regarding CCDF eligibility requirements, household and work documentation requirements, prioritization of TANF recipients, and availability of program information online in Spanish.
Perspectives from California
- Child Care Subsidy Staff Share Perspectives on Policy Implementation Practices and Effective Outreach with Latino Families in California: This brief draws on findings from our survey of California child care subsidy workers in Spring 2022, which asks frontline staff and supervisors about their implementation practices and experiences, with a focus on their interactions with Hispanic families.
Perspectives from New Mexico
- Practitioners in New Mexico’s TANF Program Offer Perspectives on Engaging Hispanic Families: This brief draws from a recent survey of TANF program practitioners in New Mexico to describe how state and local TANF agencies engage with Hispanic families who apply for TANF cash assistance.
Perspectives from North Carolina
- Local Agency Staff in North Carolina’s Child Care Subsidy Program Offer Perspectives on Engaging Hispanic Families During COVID-19: This brief draws from a survey of local child care subsidy staff in North Carolina in Spring 2021 to explore their perspectives about engaging Hispanic families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Practitioners in North Carolina’s TANF and Related Income Assistance Programs Offer Perspectives on Latino Families’ Experiences: This brief examines Latino families’ experiences with North Carolina’s TANF (also known as Work First) and related income assistance programs, based on practitioner responses.
- Child Care Subsidy Staff Share Perspectives on Administrative Burden Faced by Latino Applicants in North Carolina: This research brief shows comparisons between on-the-ground practices of local child care subsidy staff to state-level policy and guidance documents highlighting cases where practices align or diverge from documented policies and discusses the implications of this for Latino families’ access to child care subsidies.
Perspectives from New York
- New York Child Care Subsidy Staff Describe How Policy Implementation Influences Latino Families’ Receipt of Subsidies: This brief reports on the survey results related to child care subsidy eligibility requirements, the application process, and communication and outreach with families, as well as staff members’ views on how Latinx applicants may experience these aspects of the subsidy program similarly to or differently than other applicants.
Perspectives from Texas
- Practitioners in Texas’ Child Care Subsidy Program Describe How Policy Implementation Impacts Hispanic Families’ Receipt of Subsidies: This brief draws on a survey capturing the perspectives of local Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program staff in Texas to determine possible program-related barriers to and facilitators of subsidy access for Latino families.